Australia Western Australia Perth Kings Park, BIRCH, HILLMAN, BRYAN, Volunteers, 1865
1865Members of Perth Volunteer Rifles at rifle range butts, Kings Park
Rifle shooting went hand in hand with the growth of this isolated but growing State. Since the early 1880's both the settlements of Perth and Fremantle had established Volunteer Rifle Corps. The Volunteer Corps where modelled on military service and the volunteers were issued rank and required to attend meetings, parades and shooting dressed in their Corps required uniforms. Arranged shooting competitions between the two Volunteer Corps often drew a large crowd of interested spectators. The Perth Volunteers shot at what is now known as Kings Park and the Fremantle Volunteers shot at South Beach, South Fremantle.
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The Rifle Range was the first permanent European feature constructed on this tableland in Kings Park and was built in 1862 by convict labour. The Rifle Range extended from the Old Observatory to the State War Memorial Concourse and remained in use until 1895.
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- World War 2, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1940 (0.05km away)
- World War 2, Australia Western Australia Perth, 3 Aust Corps, 1943 (0.06km away)
- Interwar, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1930 (0.07km away)
- Interwar, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1930 (0.07km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Perth, Rover Scouts,1945 (0.07km away)
- Interwar, Australia Western Australia, 1931 (0.08km away)
- Interwar, Western Australia, BOYD, 16 Battalion, 1930 (0.09km away)
- Interwar, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1932 (0.1km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, Kings Park, 10 Light Horse Memorial, 1920 (0.44km away)
- Inter-War, Australia, Western Australia, Perth, Kings Park,10 Light Horse (0.44km away)
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